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December 30, 2015
the biggest investors and total funding rounds in snapchat
Snapchat is a photo and video messaging app that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to their intended recipients.Snapchat was created by by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. Among its investors are 1)Alibaba 2)Benchmark 3)Fidelity Investments 5)General 6)Catalyst Partners7) Glade Brook Capital 8) HDS Capital 9)Kingdom Holding 10)Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers along with Coatue Management SV Angel and Tencent Holdings
Snapchat as of 2015, December 31st has made 4 Acquisitions with a Total Equity Funding
$1.17B in 7 Rounds from 16 Investors.Snapchat serves transient display ads to over 100 million daily active users on its platform, for 10 seconds ( for the time range users can keep their recordings) after which the next sets of online ads are shown . Every ad disappear within 10 seconds, followed up the other set.Snapchat has succeeded in disruption the traditional CPC and CPM online ad models.
The success of the new model can be explained by the fact that Snapchat charges as astounding $750,000 a day.The company has experienced high user-base growth this year and has been one of the most compelling Unicorns in the tech industry. The firm has managed to raise over $1 billion in equity funding to date, which has valued the company between $15-20 billion.
Geographic Composition of Snapchat Inc.’s Investors (Cumulative) | FindTheCompany
The success of the new model can be explained by the fact that Snapchat charges as astounding $750,000 a day.The company has experienced high user-base growth this year and has been one of the most compelling Unicorns in the tech industry. The firm has managed to raise over $1 billion in equity funding to date, which has valued the company between $15-20 billion.
December 13, 2015
Youtube ,Snapchat replaces Facebook as US teens favorite social destination
A new study by Forrester Research found that just 65 percent of U.S. online users between the ages of 12 and 17 consider Facebook to be cool—ahead of Tumblr (62 percent), Pinterest (58 percent) and Google+ (55 percent), but lagging behind YouTube (80 percent), Snapchat (79 percent), Instagram (78 percent), Vine (72 percent), Twitter (69 percent) and WhatsApp (67 percent).
However, Forrester found that more than 60 percent of respondents use Facebook the most of all social networks, with more than one-third saying they are on it “all the time.”
June 7, 2015
Facebook and Whatsapp active users exceed 2.5billion and counting
Latest Social Media usage and statistics around the world
The above chart shows the latest social media users across the world. Facebook continues to top global social media usage with 1.5 billion active users and is miles ahead of its nearest competitor QQ.Chinese based Tencent holdings owned QQ is ranked no 2 with 829 million active users with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous online .Whatsap with over 700 million users is ranked 3rd while Facebook’s messenger service with 500million + users is ranked 5th. Linkedin and Skype ranks 7th and 8th with 347 and 300 million users .Google plus and Instagram takes the 9th rank with both standing at 300million users. Twitter ranks 12th with 288million active users
Facebook with its messenger service along with whatsapp together exceed 2.5billion active users
May 3, 2014
Snapchat steps up its war againts Whatsapp,Rolls out text and Video Chatting to its Mobile Vido App

In its biggest update yesterday, as it starts to compete against the big boys of social web, by adding the ability to add text messaging and and video chatting to its photo and video sharing app.
The latest version of the app focuses on helping its users have conversations, rather than just one-off picture and video messages.Snapchat rolled out some big new features including the ability to send disappearing text-only messages back and forth, as well as the ability to video chat with other active app users.
The latest version of the app focuses on helping its users have conversations, rather than just one-off picture and video messages.Snapchat rolled out some big new features including the ability to send disappearing text-only messages back and forth, as well as the ability to video chat with other active app users.